Portrait of a Man
Artist
Henry Edridge
(English, 1768 - 1821)
Dateca. 1790
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gilt copper alloy case
DimensionsSight: 2 × 1 5/8 inches (5.08 × 4.13 cm)
Framed: 2 3/4 × 1 7/8 × 3/16 inches (6.99 × 4.76 × 0.48 cm)
Framed: 2 3/4 × 1 7/8 × 3/16 inches (6.99 × 4.76 × 0.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/36
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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a green coat before a brown background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 181, as Unknown Man.
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 181, p. 62, (repro.), as Unknown Man.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Henry Edridge, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1790,” catalogue entry in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 2, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1360.
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Henry Edridge
May–October 1796
F58-60/35
